Won't go past initial loading screen

My poor ol' Brian (my Mac's name) won't turn on properly!
The last thing I was doing was getting it to restart after a system upgrade as per instructed.
Then it was frozen with my desktop wallpaper and the use of the mouse without anything to click on.
So I removed the battery and put it back in. Turned it back on and was faced with the initial loading screen: *white background screen, grey apple and continuous loading circle*. This went on for hours. Kinda annoying since I hear the vents running air so it is running, just not the way he's supposed to.
I've removed the adapter so my battery runs flat and tried to turn it back on after a little bit of adapter connection but the initial loading screen won't change into my login screen! Gah!
Any help would be muchly appreciated.

I had this problem several months ago and it turned out to be my hard drive. If you have Apple Care or if you're still under your 1 year warranty Apple should replace it free of charge.

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